Marcin Biography
Marcin Jakubowski, Ph.D.
2011 TED Fellow, 2012 and 2013 TED Senior Fellow, 2012 Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow
Marcin Jakubowski is the Founding Director of Open Source Ecology. See 2011 TED Talk:
Please see Marcin's TED profile
Website - Open Source Ecology
Biography
Marcin Jakubowski is a Polish-American who came to the U.S. from Poland as a child. He graduated with honors from Princeton and earned his Ph.D. in fusion physics from the University of Wisconsin. Frustrated with the lack of relevance to pressing world issues in his education, he founded Open Source Ecology in 2003 in order to make closed-loop manufacturing a reality. He began development of the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS)—an open source tool set of 50 industrial machines necessary to create a small civilization with modern comforts. His work has recently been recognized as a 2012 TED Senior Fellow, in Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2012, as a 2013 Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, and a White House Champion of Change in 2013.
